Congress Nowej Prawicy
| Congress of the New Right | |
| Congress Nowej Prawicy | |
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| abbreviation | KNP |
| Party leader | Stanisław Żółtek |
| founding | October 9, 2010 |
| Headquarters | Ulica Szklanych Domów 3 / U1, 04-346, Warsaw |
| Alignment |
Conservatism Libertarianism EU skepticism |
| Number of members | approx. 4300 (as of August 2014) |
| European party | MENL |
| EP Group | ENF |
| Colours) |
Blue red black |
| Sejm |
0/460 |
| senate |
0/100 |
| Eu Parliament |
0/52 |
| Sejmiks |
0/555 |
| Website | www.knp.org.pl |
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The Kongres Nowej Prawicy (German: Congress of the New Right , short name: KNP ) is a political party in Poland . Since the departure of chairman Janusz Korwin-Mikke and the founding of his own party KORWiN , it has become politically insignificant.
history
The Nowej Prawicy Congress was founded in 2011 by politicians from the parties Unia Polityki Realnej (German Union of Realpolitik ) and Wolność i Praworządność (German Freedom and the rule of law ). As with the previous parties, Janusz Korwin-Mikke is the initiator and chairman of the KNP . One of the goals of the alliance was to pool forces in the course of upcoming election campaigns. Neither of the two previous parties had succeeded in entering the Sejm , the Polish parliament, since 1993 .
In the run-up to the 2011 parliamentary elections , however, the Polish electoral commission only approved the KNP in 21 of the 41 constituencies due to discrepancies in the registration process. Several lawsuits by the KNP against the partial non-admission, as well as against the subsequent election result, were subsequently dismissed. In the parliamentary elections on October 9, 2011, the KNP finally received only 151,837 votes, which corresponds to 1.1%, and was therefore unable to cope with the five percent clause applicable to entry into the Sejm.
Contrary to previous forecasts, however, the KNP surprisingly achieved 7.15% of the vote in the 2014 election to the European Parliament and thus won four seats. The KNP performed particularly well among young voters: around 30% of those under 25 voted for the party. 70% of voters were under the KNP also announced as 40. On 28 May 2014, cooperation with the Slovak party Freedom and Solidarity of Richard Sulík at European level.
On June 11, 2014 it became known that the KNP wanted to become a member of the planned Europe of Nations and Freedoms group within the European Parliament , which had been initiated by the French Front National party . However, since parliamentarians from seven countries are required to form a parliamentary group, but only members from six came together, the parliamentary group's registration failed for the time being. After the deadline for the registration of political groups, which should already exist in the constituent session of the European Parliament, said Geert Wilders , the chairman of the Dutch Partij voor de Vrijheid , discrepancies in content between the parties would have made an alliance impossible anyway. He had ruled out a collaboration with the KNP, in particular its then chairman Janusz Korwin-Mikke, due to his “anti-Semitic derailments”. Shortly afterwards, Robert Iwaszkiewicz , then MEP of the KNP, joined the group of Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy , which was dominated by the British United Kingdom Independence Party .
In the local elections to the regional parliaments and municipal bodies held in Poland on November 16, 2014 , the KNP suffered a significant defeat and was unable to obtain a single mandate. As a result, Korwin-Mikke resigned from the chairmanship of the party and on January 22, 2015 from the KNP, of which he is an honorary member again. He then founded the KORWIN party. Michał Marusik , MEP, was elected as his successor on January 5, 2015 .
For the presidential election held on May 10, 2015 , the KNP nominated the lawyer Jacek Wilk as a candidate. He achieved the second lowest result with 0.46% of the vote.
On June 15, 2015, the Europe of Nations and Freedoms parliamentary group was founded, among other things, with the help of the two remaining MPs Michał Marusik and Stanisław Żółtek . The former KNP boss Korwin-Mikke is still non-attached.
In the 2015 parliamentary elections in Poland , the KNP ran in six of the 41 constituencies and received 4,852 votes (0.03%). In other constituencies the party supported the list “God bless you” by Grzegorz Braun , the KORWiN party and the Kukiz'15 movement . KNP member Jacek Wilk was elected to the Sejm on the Kukiz'15 list and joined the Wolność led by Korwin-Mikke on November 3, 2017 and is a non-party member of parliament after leaving the Kukiz parliamentary group. On January 28, 2017 Michał Marusik resigned as party president and was replaced by the other MEP Stanisław Żółtek.
Program
The KNP rejects the current political and economic system of the Third Polish Republic and calls for the state to be renamed . Furthermore, the legal system should in future be based on the Roman principles Volenti non fit iniuria (“No wrong happens to the consenting person”) and Lex retro non agit (prohibition of retroactive effects). At the same time, the KNP rejects any state intervention in relation to trade and private life and calls for the introduction of the free market economy and the preservation of the current national currency, the złoty . The party also calls for the liberalization of gun law . In addition, the Polish voivodships are to be given more competencies in the long term and Poland to be converted into a federal state .
Poland should also leave the European Union in the short term . However, the country should maintain the Schengen Agreement and membership in the common economic area. The Polish Senate should in future be awarded according KNP only 32 instead of the current 100 seats. In this context, the incumbent Polish President should receive a two-thirds weighted right of veto . On the other hand, the Sejm should be deprived of almost all political competence and the number of MPs should be reduced from 460 to 120. The government should also consist of only one prime minister and only six ministers in the future . The prime minister may only appoint ministers to the areas of defense, foreign affairs, interior affairs, finance, justice and economy that have already been defined.
In terms of economic policy, the KNP calls for massive tax cuts and the complete privatization of all publicly owned companies. This also includes a reform and privatization of the legal-public media and state educational institutions from elementary school to university. Furthermore, the KNP wants to increase spending on the military and the police . The KNP continues to call for the reintroduction of the death penalty, which was abolished in 1997, for serious crimes committed with intent. In the future, only a couple who are biologically capable of having offspring may enter into a marriage . In addition, the KNP wants to abolish the compulsory insurance and prescription and rejects both the right to abortion and euthanasia .
assessment
Political scientists assess the KNP as a populist party that has taken the place of right-wing and nationalist groups that have meanwhile disappeared into insignificance, such as the Liga Polskich Rodzin ( League of Polish Families ), and that at the same time benefits from the low turnout in Poland. Korwin-Mikke also manages with controversial statements and media-effective appearances, as Janusz Palikot did in the case of the progressive party Twój Ruch ( Your Movement ), to address a group of society that has been largely ignored by established parties. At the same time, the libertarian program appeals to those who, for historical reasons , are disappointed with the Polish state .
The Krakow party researcher Janusz A. Majcherek also explains the current success of the KNP with the fact that the party, especially among certain groups of young voters, from its “advanced libertarianism and commitment to increasingly curious campaigns (for example against compulsory seat belts as a restriction of personal freedom ) and Korwin-Mikkes propagated outrageous views (for example about the dispensability of women's suffrage, because women will always vote for the welfare state for genetic reasons) ”. Then there would be Korwin-Mikke's public presence and way of life. According to Majcherek, the profile of his party would come closest to the tea party movement . In this respect, the KNP combines “extreme economic liberalism with cultural and moral ultra-conservatism and anti-statism ”.
References
- ↑ http://wybory2011.pkw.gov.pl/wsw/pl/000000.html
- ↑ Irene Hahn-Fuhr: Poland and Europe - A clear yes and no! Heinrich Böll Foundation Warsaw, June 2, 2014.
- ↑ European Parliament: Right-wing populists fail to form factions. In: Spiegel Online . June 24, 2014, accessed June 9, 2018 .
- ↑ http://polen-heute.de/knp-bleibt-fraktionslos-im-eu-parlament-71704/
- ↑ Wybory Samorządowe 2014 ( Memento of December 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.tvn24.pl/korwin-nowa-partia-korwin-mikkego,508239,s.html
- ↑ http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/jacek-wilk-kandydatem-knp-na-prezydenta/9w10xp
- ↑ Politolodzy o rosnącym poparciu dla Kongresu Nowej Prawicy. Broadcast Minęła 20 , TVP Info, April 21, 2014.
- ↑ Janusz A. Majcherek: The election to the European Parliament in Poland. In: Polen-Analyzes , No. 148, July 2014, pp. 2–6, on p. 5.
